“I don’t think it affects the decision on Eric that we’ll make here in the next couple days,” Quinn told the WJR crew. “I would say this though, Michael is a different kind of tight end than Eric is. Eric’s a fast, athletic, ‘F’ tight end, we call them. Big Mike is a ‘Y’.”

I like a grown man calling a dude half his age “Big Mike.” That’s awesome.

You know what else is awesome? Having a big, athletic pass-catcher on the roster whose 11.5-inch hand span is longer than an NFL football measures from tip to tip on the field at the same time as a big, athletic pass-catcher who ran a 4.60 and broad-jumped 120 inches at the combine.

Now we can only wait to see if the two complementary tight ends will play together for more than one year.

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